Unfortunately, there is no originality in my brainpan this week. The poem was written by Emma Lazarus and is engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.And, yes, I know it's not necessarily a golden door in the photo but a Dutch door. So be it.Please look at Willow's Magpie Tales page for some writers with more imagination than this unworthy scribe.

You know that is cool that you shared that. I have never been to the Statue of Liberty or heard that poem. Thank you so much for sharing it. It really means a lot and it still takes a creative mind to appreciate the work of another poet.

It is nice for you to do a double tribute one to the poet and the other to the "Lady" in the harbor.

So few have read those words or even less I dare say know of the poems existence.

In a sense I felt like I was in ancient Rhodes sharing in the experience.

Here is a little trivia for you..

The design, posture and dimensions of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor are based on what the Colossus was thought by engineers in the late 19th century to have looked like. There is a famous reference to the Colossus in the sonnet "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and inscribed on a plaque located inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: